On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 1:02:09 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The loader only can see the compiled scripts as ast nodes, even if the load > > some tools could dump the separated ast node to bytecode and de-compile it, > > think of one script is divided into thousands of pieces, it's not easy to > > assemble them again. > > > > The final solution is to distribute the loader with encrypted scripts, only > > my own loader can run the encrypted scripts. > > So anyone who's going to run your program needs your loader. If > someone wants to redistribute your code, s/he can simply distribute > the loader as well - and you're right back where you started. You have > still achieved nothing in terms of preventing redistribution. > > Please do not do this. Not only are you not achieving the goal you > think you are, you're making a mess for people to have to deal with. > > ChrisA
But the loader and the encrypted scripts could be bind to one fixed computer when I distribute them to end users, so the end users can't redistribute them to any other machines. Actually this is what some commercial software does. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
